Category: Latest News

Oct 29
Viral Ethiopian Instagrammer uses trash for fashion

His rapid rise to Instagram fame may be familiar but his designs are anything but. Ethiopian content creator Kalu Putik has grabbed the attention of the fashion world with his outfits made from old clothes, shoes, and garbage scraps. Expressionless, he shows …

Oct 29
Ethiopia warns Eritrea it will defend itself after troops cross border

Truckloads of Eritrean soldiers have been seen driving into Ethiopia, which has reportedly responded with drone strikes.

Oct 29
amharicNLP 2.0.0

A dependency-light, rule-based NLP and text-preprocessing toolkit for Amharic.

Oct 29
IT threat evolution in Q2 2026. Non-mobile statistics

The report presents key trends and statistics on malware that targeted personal computers running Windows and macOS, as well as internet of things (IoT) devices, during Q2 2026.

Oct 29
Labour paid foreign criminals £6.5million of taxpayer cash to persuade them to leave the country

Some £6.5million has been paid out to foreign criminals from when Labour came to power in July 2024 until October 2025, including £500 to convicted sex offender Hadush Kebatu (pictured).

Oct 29
BRICS 2026: Who’s coming and what’s on the agenda?

Indian capital New Delhi will host the BRICS summit on September 12-13. A phalanx of leaders from the emerging economies is expected to attend and deliberate on shaping the future of the world

Oct 29
In 1974 in Ethiopia a team dug up a skeleton that pushed the human story back millions of years: ‘Lucy,’ about 3.2 million years old, showed that our ancestors walked upright long before they ever grew big brains

The discovery of Lucy overturned a century of assumptions about what made us human—and revealed that walking upright was our first, not final, evolutionary gamble. The post In 1974 in Ethiopia a team dug up a skeleton that pushed the human story back millions…

Oct 29
Bilats, brush-bys, pull-asides: The secret art of summitry at BRICS

The BRICS Summit 2026 in New Delhi will showcase the art of summit diplomacy, from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s key bilaterals with Vladimir Putin and a possible Xi Jinping meeting to pull-asides, walk-and-talks and corridor conversations. With BRICS…

Oct 29
32 Kenyan Families to Receive $87.3 Million from Boeing After Bishoftu Crash

Nearly seven years after Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed, families of the 32 Kenyan victims will receive $87.3 million in compensation. This amount is linked to Boeing's settlements with the US Department of Justice.

Oct 29
Dangote, Botswana hail NGX over cross-border collaboration

Dangote Industries and the Botswana Stock Exchange have praised the Nigerian Exchange Group for its initiative to expand cross-border investment in Africa. Read More: https://punchng.com/dangote-botswana-hail-ngx-over-cross-border-collaboration/